Pocket for garments.



W. J. GUMMINGS.

* POGKET FOR GARMBNTS. APPLIGTION FILED APB. 30,1908.

' Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

' may escape, thereby, safe-guarding the for the Watch to" UNITED STATESPATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM J. CUMM'INGSTOF .IOLIElfILLINOIS ASSIGNOR TO SWEET, ORR- inCOMPANY, 0F

'NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, A FIRM. v

POCImT FOR GARMENTS.

Specification of Letters Batent.

Patented Dec. l, 1908.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. CUMMiNGs, a citizen ci' the UnitedStates, residin at Joliet, in the count ofVill and State of llinois,have invented7 a certain new and useful Improvement in Pockets forGarments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The ob'ect of this invention is to rovide a combine safety Watch andenci pocket, from which the watch is not 1i ely to escape accidentallyby movement of the wearer, the watch-receiving Qrtion being providedwith a vent to render it practically selfcleaning. i

The invention is desi ned for use rimarily on the bibs of overalls, utit is app icable to coats and other garments.

The invention consists of a pocket close entirely acress its top save toleave a mouth for thepencil pocket when one is rused, and

having a vertically/arranged i'lap-pr0tected mouth, whose flaps socooperate with the watch as to make it practically impossible esca eWhile the wearer changes the positionof the body. Inconnection with sucha pocket is a vent for the escape of any`dirt enterin ,the pocket.

In the accompanying rawings, illustrating the invention, 1n the severaliigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Fi ure 1 is afront elevation of a pair et overails whose bib is supplied with the imrevement. Fig. 2 is a pers ective view ci a ragment of the bib, on aargei' scalecut through the Watch pocketV mouth. Fig. 3 is a rearerspective view of a p i'tion of the bib of ig. 1 and showing in a'dition an inside pocket for a handkerchief. Fig. 4 is a perspectiveview of portion of a coat supplied with' the improvement.

he overallsor coat may be of ordinary or any approved construction. Asshown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the pocket is a patchocket, having a narrowpiece l, seamed in t e central bib seam 2 andsewed down closed at top tothe body material 8 of the bib, and heinmedand open at the bottom 4;This open bottom constitutes a vent through which dirt entering orgathering in the pocket watch from being scratched or' otherwiseinjureilll The other ortion 5 of the pocket is sewed. to the body abric3 at its to 6, side 7 and bottoni 8, and if desired, the ottom ofmeeting ed es.

rand mouth the pocket may slant downwardly, as shown,

ktoward the vent 4, to facilitate the automatic cleansing of the pocket.The ed e 8 of the v portion 5 is hemmed and stitc ied down to theportion 1 from the to edge to the point 9 and from the bottom e ge tothe ypoint 10, thus leavingv an opening between the points 9 and 10which constitutes the mouth of the watch pocket. The adjacent. edges ofthe pieces 1 and 5 overlap, as shown in Fig. 2, and these overlappingportions at the mouth constitute iiaps which aiiord an additionalsafeguard against the escape of the watch as thewearer stoops over hiswork.

It will be understood that the meeting edges of the pieces 1 and 5 arestitched to each other as described, but they are not vstitched to thebody fabric 3, so that the inside pocket space extends both sides ofthese This'is indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3,2m especially by the linesof stitches in Fig. 3, and in this view the meeting `ed es are indicatedby dash-andA ot lines, while the uniformly broken lines in that viewindicate the lines of stitches which. extend through the body fabric.v

A portion of the pocket may be divided off by a line of through stitches11 to form a pencil pocket 12 which has its mouth at the to ills seen inFig. 4, the inventionpmay be ap plied to the breast of any ordinarycoat, as a patchpocket, but in this case both vertical sides will besewed down to the body fabric alike. In all cases the mouth of thepocket will b e hemmed in any suitable way.

As shown in Fig. 3, the bib maybe provided with an inside po'ck 13 toreceive a handkerchiei.

The parts are shown bulged out abnormally inFig. 1 in order to betterillustrate the construction. In practice, these parts will stretch outflat across the bib. l

While I prefer to make the pocket a combination watch and pencil pocket,still-.it yis within the invention tol omit' the pencil` pocket feature,or to replace it with a rece tacle for any other tool or instrument. T event may be omitted also,'if desired.

1. A patch-pocket for garments, having a portion secured to the bodyfabric at top and along one ed e and free from attachment to such bodyfa other portion attached to the body fabric at ric at its other edge,4and an.

top, side and bottom and having its other edge lapped over the free edgeof the first-nienedge lapped over the free edge of the rstmentionedportion and attached to said iii-staow/ee mentioned portion for a shortdistance from its top downwardly and for a portion of its length fromthe bottom upwardly, so as to leave an opening having overlap ing looseiape to constitute the mouth of t e pocket, the first-mentioned portionbeing hemmed and unattached to the body fabric at its bottorn, so as toleave a vent at the lower corner only of the bottoni of the pocket forcleaning the pocket.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of April,A. D. 1.908.

WILLIAM J CUMMINGS. lvlitnesses:

JAMES B, GAsooIeNn, D. R. MCMASTER

